Dr. Karen Roos is the first endowed professor in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University. Dr. Roos has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Neurology for over a decade, as well as on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurology. Among her honors and awards, she’s received the Drexel University College of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Society for Neurovirology Neurological Infections Award, the Distinguished Visiting Professor Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base and the UCSF Robert A. Fishman Award.Dr. Michael Wilson is the Debbie and Andy Rachleff Distinguished Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences where he is the Director of Diagnostics and Therapeutics Innovation. He also directs the UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis, and his research has been recognized with awards from the Foundation for the NIH, the American Neurological Association, and the International Society of Neuroimmunology. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

• 1. When to suspect a bacterial infection of the central nervous system2. Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bacterial CNS infections3. Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid analysis4. Neuroimaging of central nervous system bacterial infections5. Acute bacterial meningitis6. Bacterial brain abscess7. Cranial epidural abscess and subdural empyema8. Spinal epidural abscess and subdural empyema9. Mycobacterial infections10. Lyme neuroborreliosis11. Rickettsioses and Ehrlichioses12. Neurosyphilis13. Neurological complications of infective endocarditis14. Suppurative venous sinus thrombosis15. Guillain Barre syndrome16. Infections of the central nervous system in the neurosurgical patient17. Bacterial etiologies of movement disorders (Whipple’s disease, Sydenham’s chorea, etc.)18. Toxin-mediated syndromes of the nervous system 19. Infectious encephalopathy

Dr. Karen Roos is the first endowed professor in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University. Dr. Roos has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Neurology for over a decade, as well as on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurology. Among her honors and awards, she’s received the Drexel University College of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Society for Neurovirology Neurological Infections Award, the Distinguished Visiting Professor Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base and the UCSF Robert A. Fishman Award.Dr. Michael Wilson is the Debbie and Andy Rachleff Distinguished Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences where he is the Director of Diagnostics and Therapeutics Innovation. He also directs the UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis, and his research has been recognized with awards from the Foundation for the NIH, the American Neurological Association, and the International Society of Neuroimmunology. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

• 1. When to suspect a bacterial infection of the central nervous system2. Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bacterial CNS infections3. Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid analysis4. Neuroimaging of central nervous system bacterial infections5. Acute bacterial meningitis6. Bacterial brain abscess7. Cranial epidural abscess and subdural empyema8. Spinal epidural abscess and subdural empyema9. Mycobacterial infections10. Lyme neuroborreliosis11. Rickettsioses and Ehrlichioses12. Neurosyphilis13. Neurological complications of infective endocarditis14. Suppurative venous sinus thrombosis15. Guillain Barre syndrome16. Infections of the central nervous system in the neurosurgical patient17. Bacterial etiologies of movement disorders (Whipple’s disease, Sydenham’s chorea, etc.)18. Toxin-mediated syndromes of the nervous system 19. Infectious encephalopathy